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darkroommike · May 17, 2012, 01:49 PM

Model 37 good, I have the one my Mom bought my Dad the year I was born. The Ithaca website can give you the year of manufacture. I personally do not like the Polychoke but wish my barrel was ANYTHING but a 30" full choke--Dad hunted ducks, I don't. The "new" Ithaca company can convert your receiver to accept the new interchangeable barrels (NOT cheaply) but your old barrel will no longer fit after conversion. I'm exploring (when I have more cash) having the barrel shortened to 28" and installing a set of internal chokes. I may not do anything to it, it is my one full solid link to both of my deceased parents and my own birth.

The Model 37 is also one of the easiest shotguns to use left handed, bottom ejection and one of the easiest to use one handed, it's light and slick enough that you can rack another round into the chamber with a quick vertical one-handed pumping motion. It is, with the Model 12, one of the most famous "riot guns" of the 20th century.

May 17, 2012, 01:49 PM	#15
darkroommike Senior Member Join Date: August 27, 2011 Location: western Iowa Posts: 205	Model 37 good, I have the one my Mom bought my Dad the year I was born. The Ithaca website can give you the year of manufacture. I personally do not like the Polychoke but wish my barrel was ANYTHING but a 30" full choke--Dad hunted ducks, I don't. The "new" Ithaca company can convert your receiver to accept the new interchangeable barrels (NOT cheaply) but your old barrel will no longer fit after conversion. I'm exploring (when I have more cash) having the barrel shortened to 28" and installing a set of internal chokes. I may not do anything to it, it is my one full solid link to both of my deceased parents and my own birth. The Model 37 is also one of the easiest shotguns to use left handed, bottom ejection and one of the easiest to use one handed, it's light and slick enough that you can rack another round into the chamber with a quick vertical one-handed pumping motion. It is, with the Model 12, one of the most famous "riot guns" of the 20th century.